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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The death rattle of my enemies and the lamenting of their women. (oh, music. 1812 Overture, some Russian geezer).

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Mildred Pierce Reporting" read by William S Burroughs from the album "Spare AS5 Annie and Other Tales." 'What the bloody f**king hell are civilians for? Soldiers' pay.'

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Eh? Speak up? Oh new topic, sorry. Um. NT: RPG rulebook chapter titles that make you realise you should have read the review before buying the game.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "So call in now, and remember this limited edition "Charmed" roleplaying game is signed by the entire cast and a snip at only $49.99. I'm Jack Chick, and I look forward to speaking to you again soon."

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The lamenting of my enemies as they realise they have been outmatched once again. Bwahahahaha.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Boom, boom, boom. Don't mind me, just singing along.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Bonum est confidere - songs of Taize. Oops, just finished... now into 1812 Overture by some Rooskie.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Exercise 11 on Disk 3 of "An introduction to NLP" since you asked.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? And, by total coincidence courtesy of RealPlayer's random playlist feature, just as I logged back onto the NGD Boards - - - Incubus - Marillion.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Garden Party - Marillion (sigh takes me back to my angry young man days in the early 80s)

Re: Hero System women are all insanely attractive Leaping away from HERO for a second - I started a science fiction GURPS campaign many years ago. It was originally a one-off filler for a single player when the rest of the group didn't arrive. He made up a bounty hunter type pretty quickly and, having several points left over from his original character conception gave the bounty hunter maximum attractiveness (25 points, very handsome). He played him for a couple of single-player sessions, then the rest of the group turned up again the next week and, having heard Steve saying he'd enjoyed the (largely improvised) Space Opera stuff they decided to join in. However when they realised that Steve's character was so damned handsome, they just couldn't take second place. Every single character (all male I might add!) from the veteran star commando, to the ruthless assassin, to the jaded street-samurai all took maximum attractiveness. They didn't do it as a gag, they just didn't want to be second best. That was one rebel team that found it VERY hard to do incognito missions... Still as one of them said, if the rebellion ever crumbled at least they could all get jobs modelling swimwear.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Gewing wrote: Well since you feel that way, why not pop over to my other regular haunt http://www.419eater.com and fight back a little... Maybe even get the scammers to do a little cheap movie publicity for you...

Hasn't Bantam already been taken? Sinister chap, kid sidekick called Robni, hangs around the skyline of Gotmah Ctiy?

http://www.ianrowland.com/The%20Vault/AFOB1.html hohohoho

I've been tempted by the downloadable character models mentioned above, but most of my artwork is computer based. These are in pdf format. Is it possible to copy/paste from within the pdf into a paint package to work on?

I'm a bit concerned by all the McDonalds bashing going on in this thread- even if the food itself is not to your taste you can't fault the success that McDonalds has shown, growing phenomenally as a result of ...heh... high standards in food hygiene, customer... hmph... service and.... being an example to the world... snrkkk.... nu...nutrionists agree... heheheheh.... Sorry. I really tried to keep a straight face I really did. But then some aspartame polluted diet cola went up my nose and I gave the whole thing away. ((Loved the scene when Ronald McDonald took out Hamburglar, pointed to the golden arches and roared "What do you think this letter on my sign stands for? Nutrition?"))

NEW HERBAL KRYPTONITE SUBSTITUTE!! 100% EFFECTIVE!!! GREEN!! RED!! LIMITED STOCK!! --- HOWLER AND SAPPHIRE!!! THAT KISS!!! EXLCUSIVE GENUINE FOOTAGE!!! MPG!!! DOWNLOAD NOW!!! --The text for which would almost certainly read: GREETINGS AND GOOD WISHES TO YOU SIR, YOR NAME HAVE BEEN GIVEN ME BY MUTUAL ACQUAINTANCE AS A SUPERHUMAN OF GOOD CHARACTER FOR THIS CONFIDENTAIL ARRANGEMENT. I AM DR MILTON TEAJAY FORMER MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR FOR NIGERIA AND I HAVE $200,000 (TWO HUNDRED MILLION US DOLLARS) WORTH OF MONEY FROM SALE OF ADAMNTIUM INGOTS IN A SAFE DEPOST BOX IN LAGOS!!! I AM UNABLE TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO THIS DEPOST BOX DUE TO CORRUPTION IN THE NEW REGIME WHICH I AM SURE YOU ARE AWARE OF. I AM LOOKING FOR CONFIDENTIAL SUPERHUMAN PARTNER WHO WILL ALLOW USE OF HIS/HER PERSONAL BANK ACCOUNT TO TRANSFER FUNDS AND WILL PAY 10% OF SUM INVOLVED FOR USE OF SAID ACCOUNT. MAY GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU CONSIDER THIS CHARITABLE ACT, AND TO OCNTACT ME AT YOUR EARLIERS OPPORTUNITY.

Heh... just checked my own inbox for inspiration and... "YOUR SECRET IDENTITY HAS BEEN DICSOVERD! DOWNLOAD IDENTI_FILTER NOW & PROTECT YOR PRIVACY!!!" (Actually it was a warning that "Illegal material" has been detected on my PC...which needless to say is a big fib! I think the most disturbing thing about this particular trend in spam is that the senders are obviously confident that most people will have a guilty conscience about SOMETHING and react accordingly)

SAVE $$$ WITH ALL INCLUSIVE THIRD PARTY PROPERTY INSURANCE SALLY IN SPANDEXXX WANST TO MEET SINGLE SUPERS!!!!! etc etc Sorry about the caps and the spelling, trying to be authentic... What mass marketing horrors might target superhumans in your campaign world?

(Damn I still haven't worked out how to post a link to another thread!) There was a thread a few months ago entitled "Golden Age British Supers" which churned up quite a few WWII heroes (mainly British, but you can pick & choose) which could provide some inspiration. If you do a search on "Iron Duke" you should find it.

Can you imagine being a typical speedster, with the accelerated movement, reactions and perceptions that entails, and being stuck in a world of SPD 2 or 3 normals? I imagine the frustration would be intolerable, waiting for them to ploddingly make up their minds, to *always* be in the way when you need to get past them, to be so clumsy... I really hate shopping in crowded supermarkets, aisles blocked with people trudging along at 0mph and seemingly in a shopping trance. Being a speedster could engender the same reaction *all the time!* ((shudders)) I need to go lie down for a while or else I may turn all my npc speedsters evil just out of reaction!

Q: How come your hot date ended so badly? A: Fish guts all over the Vatican

Q: Would anyone like to hire a howling orangutan to represent them at press conferences? A: A blank cartridge, a baby deer, and some killjoy journalists.

Bishop of Bath and Wells. More Powerful than character. Non Combat Influence (the black bank has branches everywhere) Harshly punish (red hot poker) Definitely worth the Hunted points. Don't forget to give him a psych limitation to reflect the fact he flinches whenever he sees Lord Percy ever since the affair with Leonardo Acropolis.

LOL I have fond memories of watching "Are you Being Served" as a kid in the 70s and 80s, and all the smut went completely over my head. I watch the repeats (re-runs to you Colonial types) now and sit there gobsmacked thinking "How on earth did they get away with this?" eg: (and don't worry, I will self-censor...) Mrs Slocombe (on phone to neighbour): "Could you possibly go round to my front door and bend down and look through the letterbox. If you can see my *PET CAT* in the hallway just try to throw something nice in for it." or Mrs Slocombe (talking about unexplained noises): "There's only got to be footstep in the garden and all the hairs on my *PET CAT* stand on end." Mr Lucas: "It's better than a burglar alarm." etc.